Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) underscored in a new book the need to educate people about Taiwan‘s importance and how the Asian country is needed to confront China and communism.

China accused the United States of “serious regression” in its policy on Taiwan on Monday, specifically how the U.S. State Department’s fact sheet was updated to remove the phrase “we do not support Taiwan independence.”

Cotton’s new book, Seven Things You Can’t Say About China, explains how he aims to “ring the alarm bell” on how “dangerous” a threat China poses to the U.S. and how Taiwan is possibly “the hottest flashpoint.”

The Arkansas senator detailed how the U.S. has supported the “peaceful status quo” for some time and that the State Department’s statement against Taiwan’s independence from China was an example of the Biden administration “cowtailing” behind China. Going forward, however, the U.S. would no longer bend its knee to China, Cotton said.

“We’re going to support our friends in Taiwan,” Cotton explained on Fox News’s Fox & Friends. “We don’t want to see disrupted, unilateral change. We want peaceful, stable relations in which Communist China doesn’t fulfill its long-held ambition of trying to invade and annex Taiwan, which would lead to an instant global depression and a war unlike anyone has ever seen in our lifetimes.”

Cotton detailed how Taiwan owns roughly 60% of all global semiconductor manufacturing and 90% of high-end semiconductor manufacturing. Beyond depression and a massive war, consequences that could arise from a Taiwan conflict would include a stock market crash and people’s life savings getting “wiped out,” Cotton added.

“The only way to prevail is to deter it from happening in the first place,” Cotton stated.

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Seven Things You Can’t Say About China was released on Tuesday.

Last month, Cotton pitched the idea that the Trump administration issue tariffs against China to ensure the it faces consequences for “unleashing” COVID-19 onto the world. The senator made this suggestion shortly after the Central Intelligence Agency changed its view on the origins of COVID-19 and how it likely originated from a Chinese lab leak.